Welcome to Creative Writing!
Happy Monday!
April 7th, 2014
Housekeeping
· Please sign in.
Papers Back to Put in Your Binder
· EB/Plagiarism page 3
· Earthbook Reading
Assignment
· Portfolio Viewing
Page
Papers to Put in Your Manila Folder
1.
Free Write #1
2.
Free Write #2
3.
Cliché Story
4.
Early Memory Visualizing Sheet
Miscellaneous
· Read over the
comments you got from your Cliché Partner story.
·
When you finish, one partner
tuck those slips in your manila folder, then everyone put his/her manila folder
back in the black folder-holder. Thanks!
Writing
Lesson Review: Clichés--Okay, so, to
review, WHY do we avoid clichés in our writing?
1. They are boring.
2. They are trite.
3. They are predictable.
4. They’re overused.
Writing
Lesson: Clichés
1.
Clichés--page 7—what are they? Why are they bad for our writing?
2.
Assignment—review clichés. Make sure you know what they are and can
recognize them.
a.
Read pages 8-9.
b.
Put a smiley face by clichés you find
amusing.
c.
Put a checkmark by ones you’ve heard a
bunch (familiar).
d.
Put a question mark by the ones you
have no clue about
3.
Pair-Share
a.
Compare notes with a partner.
b.
Share your smiley faces, and explain
why.
c.
Share your question marks. If you can explain one to your partner, do
so! That will save us time later.
4.
Assignment: Create anti-clichés (p. 7).
a. It has to
make sense! (be true)
b. It has to be
original.
c. It has to
put a picture in our heads!
Started at __10:48__; ending about -ish?
2. Trade four times, at least, for smileys.
(started 11AM)
a. Read your partner’s nine anti-clichés.
b. Put a smiley and your initials by the TWO
you feel are strongest.
3. Now, put a big rectangle around your
answer you feel is strongest.
4. Everyone share his/her best anti-cliché.
Vocabulary-Building: Free Rice
1. You need a big vocabulary to write precisely. This
term, we’re going to work specifically on building your vocabulary.
2. Go to my blog, and click on the “Creative Writing Free Rice” link
on the right side of the blog for our class.
3. Do you see our class group name above your bowl of
rice? That’s the only way to know for sure you’re in the group.
4. You need to donate 5,000 grains by __THURSDAY, APRIL 10th__.
5. Guess what free rice has to do with diction?!
When You Play, Every Time
1. Go to “Change Level”, and change it to two levels below your best.
2. Do NOT start over from “1” every time. You will lose
hours of your life!
Free Rice
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